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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Stripped down DOS?
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.132238.4798@uwasa.fi>
Date: 19 Apr 91 13:22:38 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.165452.7670@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1991Apr17.165452.7670@ccu.umanitoba.ca> bright@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bob Bright) writes:
>
>Is there a stripped down version of DOS that one can use to obtain as
>much free memory as possible?  I'm sure there must be such a thing,
>but I really don't know very much about DOS machines (I'm posting this
:

   Perhaps there might be such tiny beasts, I really am not sure. 
I've never encountered one, but that doesn't prove anything for
certain. 
   However, the usual way to go about this problem is to load parts
of the system (drivers, TSRs etc) in the upper memory.  There are
both commercial and shareware utilities for this task.  At our
archives there are such utilities in the /pc/memutil directory.  One
that might be recommended is tlb-v118.zip.  Be warned though.  These
facilities may be very difficult to install properly for the first
time. 
   Then there are, of cource, options like using DOS 5.0 or DR-DOS,
but discussing these is outside the scope of this particular
newsgroup. 

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